There were times I stood in the middle of that beautiful chaos and felt tears rise for no reason other than gratitude.I had built businesses, I had survived betrayals, I had learned to endure. But no success I had ever touched felt as rich as a living room with toys under the couch and milk warming in the kitchen.My body was healing well.Not perfectly.Not magically.Healing after childbirth was not the graceful return people pretended it was. Some mornings I woke feeling almost strong while some nights my back ached so deeply I wanted to cry.There were days my body felt unfamiliar to me, changed by carrying life, by pain, by recovery. Yet compared to those first days after giving birth, I felt almost new.I could move more easily, I could stand longer, I could laugh without wincing most of the time and I could hold both babies without immediately regretting every decision that led me there.Mother, however, refused to believe improvement meant freedom. If I stood too quickly, she
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